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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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GEORGE PAYNE McLEANUnited States Senator from Connecticut (3Q2) The Audubon Societies 393 SENATOR GEORGE P. McLEAN The one big outstanding figure for bird-protection in the Congress of the UnitedStates is George Payne McLean, Senatorfrom Connecticut. There are, of course,many men in Congress who may be depen-ded on to always stand for the conserva-tion of wild-life, but Senator McLean isthe one ever on the alert, who rounds up thefriends of the birds when times of stressarise. If they are slow in mobolizing, heis the redoubtable Belgian who throwshimself into the path of the invaders ofthe rights of the birds, and holds them incheck until the forces of the country cancome to his assistance. He has done thissort of thing over and over again. This isthe gentleman who is the father of theFederal Migratory-Bird Law, which is sooften referred to affectionately as theMcLean Law. It was his speech, de-livered on the floor of the Senate last year,in favor of the Plumage Law, that carriedthe d

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